(Not updated poster with all laurels) Still from film Benjamin Zadig, Precious Balance Walk
I Still Live In Water is an intuitive art project working with water, creating in the creation and creating together with creation by the artists Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen, Malmö/Sweden.
The project is based on an intuitive process and dialogue hoping to inspire awareness about water, and the escalating situation with how we treat our Oceans, how we use freshwater, and the way we pollute the water on earth. It is a living-learning process at the same time as it is an art project, to grow and express a human identity that connects, sense, explore
and expand in being creatures of water, a part of the hydrosphere. Interactivity and collaborations are a red thread, working with interactive performance, sound pieces, photo, film, and workshops.
"What does water know about you that you don't know about yourself?"
Felicia Konrad paraphrasing the poet a rawlings paraphrasing Robert MacFarlane
"We are all water in the same ocean" Yoko Ono
"We Are All at Sea" Astrida Neimanis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp1wo1irkQA
"What you know in your heart, truly know is possible, is possible. We make it possible with the will. What we imagine mentally becomes our world. That is just one of the many things I have learned from water." Masaru Emoto
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone… You are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” Margaret Atwood
CV for the film Precious Balance Walk and the project I Still Live in Water/Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen
Film
2020 Precious Balance Walk (13.24) https://vimeo.com/460235021
Streaming at TriArt, only Sweden; www.triart.se/streama/precious-balance-walk
(There will be updates; more prices have been awarded for Precious Balance Walk)
Best Experimental Film'; ARFF Paris Around Film International 2021, European Short Film Festival 2021, Gliff Golden Lemur Film Festival 2021 Portugal, Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Sweet Democrazy Film Award 2022, Bhutan International Short Film Festival 2022, Venus Community Awards 2022 Turkey, AIMAFF, Athens 2023, Frida Film Festival 2023 Mexico, Vegas Movies Awards 2023, Echonation Audio and Filmfestival 2023, Ireland, Golden Giraffe International Film Festival, Nice, Tokyo Awards 2023, Budapest Film Festival 2023, Garoaawards 2023, Sao Paolo, Best Short Film Award 2022/23 Summer Edition, London England,
Honorable Mention (Best Experimental) New York Tristate International Film Festival 2023, Your Way International Film Festival 2023, Malta
Best Performing Art and Critics choice; Calcutta International Cult Film 2022
Best Dance or Poetic; Climaxfilmfest Critic Awards 2022 Spanien
Best Cinematography; Benjamin Zadig; Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey,
Vegas Movie Award 2023
Best Sound Editing, David Gülich, Arrow International Film Festival 2022 Frankrike
Best Sound Design; David Gülich, Paris Shorts Film Awards 2022
Best Arthouse Film; 8 & Halfilm Awards May 2022
Best Director: Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey
Best Original Sound Track: Fox Film International 2023, Italy
Special Award; Cinematographer Benjamin Zadig/Precious Balance Walk; Cinematic European Film Festival 2022 Moldavia
’Outstanding Achievement’; DIFF Durk International Film Festival 2021 Bhutan, Reels International Film Festival 2022 Indien
Nominated Arthouse Finalist at Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2021
Nominated finalist for Best Poetic at Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, London 2022, Magma Film Awards 2022 (Hawaii)
Nominated finalist; Bridge of Peace Film Festival 2023, Paris
Nominated Best Experimental of the Year; Vegas Movie Awards 2023
Selected; Prague International Indie Film Festival 2021, Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) 2021, Water Docs 2021, Canada
Nov Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, Hollywood On The Tiber Film Awards 2021,
Flickfair International Film Festival 2022, Snow Leopard International Film Festival 2022, European Peace Film Festival 2022 Ukraine, French International Modern Script and Film Festival 2023,
With support from Nordic Culture Fund, Filmcentrum Syd, BoostHelsingborg, Marine Knowledge Center in Malmö, Oh Boy Hotel
Live Screenings of Precious Balance Walk
2023 14/9 OSLO, at ECOPERFORMANCE IN ARCHITECTURE, as part of the teaching and research program BODY & SPACE MORPHOLOGIES ACTING AND THE ACTED IN A MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD at the Institute of Architecture The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)Oslo, Prof. Rolf Gerstlauer. https://aho.no/no/courses/40-559/2023-host
2023 3/9 Cinema Panora, Malmö, Malmö in the making
2023 2/6 Sao Paolo, 3ird Ecoperformance International Film Festival www.ecoperformance.art.br
Also a part of the streaming of 57 films online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMau0K7GKEzwNYqMA1lj_3Q
2023: 27-28/5 Southern Swedish Design Days, Malmö https://southernswedendesigndays.com/en/event/locally-alien
2022: 23/9 St Pauli Church; Malmö Gallery Weeekend, Konstfrämjandet Skåne
2021 6/9 Friis Frame, Panora Cinema, Malmö, Sweden
2021 6/10 Malmö Art Hall, Malmö, Sweden
2021 13/10 Nordic Labour Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
Exhibitions
2024 Group exhibition in Amsterdam, 10th of February-3ird of March; https://www.kunstinzicht.nl/kunst/tentoonstelling/19922/e24381/sonja-cabalt-aqua-ardens-water-vuur-ndsm-fuse-amsterdam.html
2021 Water Dialogues, Ljudkullen; Malmö Summer Stage, Sweden
2021 2/10 - 7/11 Precious Balance Walk, arthouse/experimental film, at Gibca Extended (Gothenburg International Biennal for Contemporary Art),
Tjörns Municipality, Sweden, + the sound piece Water Dialogues
2020 The sound piece Water Dialogues, Malmö Art Museum, Sweden (outdoor, as an extension of the exhibition Shapeshifters)
2018 Amniotic Fluid/Water Dialogues, Tomelilla Art Hall, Tomelilla, Sweden. On behalf of Tomelilla Art Hall, the sound piece Water Dialogues (Konrad, Carlsson, Persson, Quartey) was created for their audio logs.
2016 Amniotic Fluid, Blå Ställets Art Hall, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 The sound piece Love is an Ocean/Cosmic Wash Over, Water Works, a global online art exhibition by the artist Suzon Fuks, Brisbane, Australia
Live Performance Concert; Body of Water
2023 16/9 St Petri Church, Malmösfestivalen, 3hr durational Body of Water
2022 23/9 St Pauli Church; Malmö Gallery Weekend, Konstfrämjandet Skåne
2020 16/8 Malmö Art Museum, Sweden, on behalf of Malmö Art Museum during exhibiting the sound piece Waterdialogues outdoor at Malmö Art Museum summer of 2020, we created the Live Performance Concert Body of Water; Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, Tina Quartey
Sound Pieces
2021 Breathing Water with support by Malmö Culture Support, (Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, Tina Quartey)
2020 Music in the film Precious Balance Walk; Water is instinct; Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, from the sound piece Water Dialogues
2018 Water Dialogues, created for the audio logs at Tomelilla Art Hall, Sweden (Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, Tina Quartey)
Performance/Interactive Performance
2021 The Throne, - Human's desire to own water, nature, at Ribersborgs beach, Malmö, Sweden
2020 Slow Collective Walk, Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
2018 Water Walk - An Art Performance Walk, Ribersborgs beach, Malmö, Sweden.
2018 Water Banquet - interactive performance, Tomelilla Art Hall, Sweden
2017 Water is instinct, Ribersborgs beach, Malmö, Sweden
2016 A glass of water, thank you! - The water in your glass is maybe older than the sun.
Blå Ställets Arthall, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 To Carry Water. To Carry 5890 liters one day.
Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Ribersborgs beach, Malmö, Sweden.
With support from Malmö City Culturesupport and Dome of Visions, Copenhagen.
Biography Felicia Konrad b. 1964 and Johan Haugen b.1968
I Still Live in Water; Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen, directors of the short arthouse/experimental film; Precious Balance Walk (13.24).
Felicia Konrad b.1964 is a voice performer/singer-songwriter/performance artist and a cultural project leader.
In her 20ies she was an assistant director to the Swedish famous film director Bo Widerberg.
www.feliciakonrad.se
Johan Haugen b.1968 is an artist/painter and performance artist.
www.johanhaguenart.com